Romantic conventions / Anne K. Kaler and Rosemary E. Johnson-Kurek, editors.

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Other Authors: Kaler, Anne K., Johnson-Kurek, Rosemary E.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Bowling Green, OH : Bowling Green State University Popular Press, ©1999.
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Table of Contents:
  • Conventions of the romantic genre / Anne K. Kaler
  • The good provider in romance novels / Pamela Marks
  • From bodice-ripper to baby-sitter : the new hero in mass-market romance / Abby Zidle
  • "I am not a bimbo" : persona, promotion, and the fabulous Fabio / Rosemary E. Johnson-Kurek
  • This is not your mother's Cinderella : the romance novel as feminist fairy tale / Jennifer Crusie Smith
  • Cavewoman impulses : the Jungian shadow archetype in popular romantic fiction / Amber Botts
  • Medieval magic and witchcraft in the popular romance novel / Carol Ann Breslin
  • Conventions of captivity in romance novels / Anne K. Kaler
  • Time-travel and related phenomena in contemporary popular romance fiction / Diane M. Calhoun-French
  • Leading us into temptation : the language of sex and the power of love / Rosemary E. Johnson-Kurek
  • Postmodern identity (crisis) : confessions of a linguistic historiographer and romance writer / Julie Tetel Andresen
  • Hero, heroine, or Hera? / Anne K. Kaler.